This was my first Codex Supplement done for GW, under the art direction of Darius Hinks! The brief was to create a companion cover to the formidable Raymond Swanland's Chaos codex. Although the initial brief seemed pretty straightforward, I wanted to offer to the fans of said codex faction(s) at least some kind of visual narrative that represents the faction; and the idea of him standing in the rain, not just holding, but slowly crushing the helmet of a fallen Ultramarine seemed to be a decent idea to go with, one that also answered the other creative parameters of the brief. In an attempt to give some context to the background, an earlier version sported purple lightning coming down from the warp storm behind the Legion CSM as a nod to their 'roots', but it proved to be too distracting.

Other bits for my inner fanboyy:-Folding grip on living bolter, trigger also demonically fused with trigger finger... because CHAOS THATS WHY! -Reverse melee blade bolted to pistol grip.-I was working off reference sent to me, and those featured pretty heavily corrupted Legionnaires. But after doing some more reading, I felt it might be also interesting to only partially corrupt him to show er, more facets of this marine's personality, (after all they embody chaos undivided doctrine) in this case mainly his upper body and firing arm, leaving the other parts relatively clean for contrast. I chose to give him base armour trim that to me felt kind of proud enough to be from the sons of Horus, and not overly gruesome, not too frilly and nutty since the corrupted bits literally had trim folding into itself, like on the living right pauldron. Then again maybe all this is lost on you chaos fans out there that might think its still 200 demonic tendrils short of being worthy of chaos... Let me know! Actually.. don't

Hi. You're amazing! If you could take a quick second to answer this, you would honestly change my life: What do I physically need to do during practice, each day, to eventually be able to create something like this?

Can you please break down exactly what one extremely motivated beginner student would need to do, each & every day when he or she sits down to practice, in order to create these incredible photorealistic 2d digital drawing/paintings from my imagination?

I've been trying some stuff, but I still suck!!

Can you please make me, like, a list?!!!! So I can then go out and explore those topics? Or at least tell me what I need to physically be doing with my practice time?

you should begin with the very beginning of all things : fundamentals like construction drawing, perspective, anatomy, lighting, color, composition and stuff like that; Gnomon and CG Master Academy have some DVDs on fundamentals, I can recommend watching FZD channel on youtube, it gives a good insight on the whole industry and techiques; start with drawing on paper everyday, don't switch to a graphic tablet until you're comfortable with drawing on paper, because drawing digitally is a lot harder to get used to, start with learning construction drawing, begin with simple stuff and gradually move to more complex stuff ... and GOOGLE is basically you're best friend, that's how I'm learninig it ... good luck

Liking this a lot. Your portrayal of metal is very satisfying. My only complaint is that you pierced his middle horn with a ring piercing which kinda got on the silly side for me and took me out of the painting a bit. The pistol design is great and I love the idea of fused trigger finger.

Love seeing your Warhammer work. Hope to be working alongside you with GW one day.

This is an incredible piece of work. I am a huge fan of the Warhammer 40K universe. I don't play the game but the mythology that is Warhammer 40K is just amazing. I could only dream of having talent like this. You should do one of some Eldar Harlequins in combat with some Tau.

What's that? My power-armor is taking over my body? No, my body is taking over my power-armor lol"because Chaos that's why!" very well put! I love how terrifying it is that they are being transformed in so many ways at the same time, and the path leading up to it for all of them started with one decision

i was reading on the wiki's about a renegade god, a chaos god that wants to kill the other chaos gods, and i just wonder if they will bring in any direct pieces for this god because he seems pretty badass

but for this cover art i like it alot, it just makes me want to convert to chaos even more

Oh man.. what can I tell you..This time, I show this to my class at the University as an example of a professional work and as an example of an amazing an talented artist, and also a friend.Thanks again for sharing your amazing work and for inspire a lot of artist on the media. Hope to meet you one day and stretch that hand..Cheers Ukitakumuki!